Combined pill tile and cutter



(No ModeL) A. CALDWELL.

COMBINED PILL TILE AND GUTTER. No. 320,216. Patented June 16, 1885.

ATENT Ormes.

ALONZO CALDWELL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

COMBINED PILL TILE AND CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 320,216, dated June 16, 1885.

Application tiled April 527, 1885.

T0 all whom t may concern.;-

Be it known that I, ALONZO CALDWELL, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in a Combined Fill Tile and Cutter, Of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings forming a part hereof, Figure I is a perspective view of the invention. Fig. II is a plan of the same with the cutter down. Figs. III, IV, V, and VI are details ofthe invention, the last named being in perspective.

A is an Ordinary piIl-tiIe, having graduationmarks to guide the druggist in rolling the mass. The tile A is inserted in a bed, B, to which the cutting devices hereinafter described are hinged.

C is the pill-block, having a corrugated upper surface, as is common in devices of this class, and it is adapted to be lif'ted, as and for a p urposehereinafter described.

D is the cutter, which consists as follows: A frame in two parts, a and b, connected so as to be extensible, is hinged at c to the bed B. The Outer end ofthe frame is box-shaped and adapted to hold the knives d, which are inserted therein and separated by strips c. The strips and knives are secured in the frame a b by means of a set-screw, f.

I do not restrict myself to the construction herein shown of the frame a b, as it is only necessary that it should be iitted to hold the knives and the separating-strips,and be extensible. A handle, E, is used to elevate and depress the cutter D. The outer ends of the knives d, when down and extended forward, rest in slots g in a bar, F, and upon the edges 7L on the upper surface of the corrugated pillblock O. The pill-mass, which is first rolled out to the proper length, is placed on the corru gated block C and against the slotted bar F. The cutter is then lifted, and afterbeing drawn forward over the mass, as shown in Fig. I, is depressed and carried back, which severs the (No model.)

mass into as many pieces as there are pills re- 45 quired. The slotted bar F prevents the severed mass being carried back with the knives, and the corrugated block rounds the lower sides ofthe pieces. In some cases the mass is of such consistency as will cause it to adhere to the slot-ted bar F in the backward motion of the knives. I therefore adaptthe said block to be elevated, as before stated, and this is accomplished by means of a lever, G, pivoted Iat i, upon the inner end of which the said pill-bloek rests. The outer end of the lever projects beyond the bed, as shown in Figs. I, II, and III, in order that it can be operated by hand. The elevation of the severed mass above the bar F also admits of the ready removal of 6c the pieces,whieh are moved forward to the tile. The pieces are then rolled into pills.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination with a pill-tile and a slotted bar, against which the rolled pill-mass is placed, a series of cutters adapted to enter the slots of t-he bar, attached to an extensible hinged frame, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with the slotted bar F and the knives fl, the said knives being adapted for elevation and depression and to be slid forward and backward, the pill-block O and means to raise it, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a combined pill tile and cutter, the cutter D, formed of the extensible sections a and b, knives d, and strips c, the whole being hinged to a bed in which the said tile is inserted, substantially as specified.

4. In combination with the knives d and strips e, secured in a suitable holder adapted for elevation and depression, the slotted bar F, pill-block O, and means to elevate the said pill-block, substantially as specified.

ALONZO CALDWELL.

Vitnesses:

C. W. ARNOLD, DANI.. Frsnnn. 

